Eli5 what is it about alcohol/fermentation that makes it almost universally make everything drunk?

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Insects get drunk. Elephants get drunk and everything in between. Is it the only chemical that has this type of effect on everything that consumes it?

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The chemical makeup of alcohol contains a carbon – oxygen – hydrogen bond which is literally a poison. So you are not drunk, you are reacting to poisoning yourself. Sounds dramatic, but this is one poison that affects most living things and why you can die from it, plus it’s effects on most bacteria / viruses

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